The Black aesthetic.

1. Theory: Introduction: Towards a Black aesthetic / Hoyt W. Fuller --
Some reflections on the Black aesthetic / Larry Neal --
Negro youth speaks / Alain Locke --
You touch my Black aesthetic and I\'ll touch yours / Julian Mayfield --
Black cultural nationalism / Ron Karenga --
Cultural strangulation: Black literature and the white aesthetic / Addison Gayle, Jr. --
Black arts: notebook / John O\'Neal --
Afro-American literary critics: an introduction / Darwin T. Turner --
2. Music: Introduction to Black aesthetics in music / Jimmy Stewart --
Of the sorrow songs / W.E.B. DuBois --
Jazz at home / J.A. Rogers --
The changing same (R & B and new Black music) / LeRoi Jones --
The Black aesthetic imperative / Ron Wellburn --
Reflections on the evolution of post-war jazz / Leslie B. Rout, Jr. --
A comparative analysis of the African and the Western aesthetics / Ortiz M. Walton --
3. Poetry: Introduction: The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes --
Tripping with Black writing / Sarah Webster Fabio --
Blackness can: a quest for aesthetics / James A. Emanuel --
The Black aesthetic in the thirties, forties, and fifties / Dudley Randall --
Toward a definition: Black poetry of the sixties (after LeRoi Jones) / Don L. Lee --
Paths to the future / W. Keorapetse Kgositsile --
4. Drama: Introduction: The Negro and the American theatre (1927) / Alain Locke --
The Black arts movement / Larry Neal --
I work here to please you / Loften Mitchell --
Black theater -go home / Ronald Milner --
On Black theater / Clayton Riley --
5. Fiction: Introduction: Blueprint for Negro writing / Richard Wright --
The new Black literature: protest or affirmation / Hoyt W. Fuller --
The Black writer and his role / Carolyn F. Gerald --
The Black writer vis-á-vis his country / John Oliver Killens --
Some observations on a Black aesthetic / Adam David Miller --
Can a metronome know the thunder or summon a god? / Ishmael Reed --
The function of Black literature at the present time / Addison Gayle, Jr.